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    <body><![CDATA[Wow.<br/><br/>This is a tough one... A tough review to write, a tough book to read.<br/><br/>Normally I like Burroughs' books, but I am truly torn over this one. <br/><br/>Things I liked: The description, the imagery. I truly FELT (not just UNDERSTOOD) what he was writing. I also liked the way...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28063943">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I like Augusten. In this post-Frey Scandal world, it seems anyone who writes memoir has suddenly become suspect and frankly, I resent it. No one ever screamed FRAUD at Truman Capote for fictionalizing his past – well, at least not to his face, I’d imagine. Anyway, much has been made of the fact ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21482592">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[god, it almost pains me to leave augusten burroughs a shoddy review but im sorry, this book bored me to death.<br/><br/>one of the things i most admire and apriceiate about A.B. is his outstanding humor and wit despite the traumatic events that have shaped his life. this book lacked the humor.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20422975">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[ I love everything else Augusten Burroughs has written, especially &quot;Dry&quot; and &quot;Sellivision&quot;, but this one just didn't seem to be up to his usual standards. As I was reading it,I kept wondering if he got behind deadline for the next book he owed his publisher and came up with this ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22054808">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I do like Burroughs; I like his essays rather than his sustained writing. I feel like I'm the only one in America who didn't like Running With Scissors. This book...hmm. It's very frightening, and Burroughs as ever is compulsively readable. Yet I was occasionally confused; the jacket copy refers omi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38489916">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wonderful news! I was wrong about Augusten; he has proven beyond a doubt that he did have another award-winning book in him after all. I had declared him utterly finished after his book Magical Thinking, his collection of brief nonfiction essays in which he came across as an animal-hating, child-hat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66208624">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[typical burroughs, except not funny. dude has had a rough life, that's for sure. if you're a fan, read it. If not, skip it, unless you want to feel better by comparison about your own pathological upbringing. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In regards to the writing:  There are some things that an author must do when writing books.  These things can not be denied from memoirists either.  The key to a good book, one that entertains from start to finish - especially in today's culture - is sympathy for <em> all </em> characters.  This was lacking...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21658610">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Some of the &quot;Average Joe&quot; negative reviews of A Wolf at the Table that I've read online complain that author Augusten Burroughs' &quot;didn't really know what it was like to be abused&quot; or that Burroughs' mental anguish in the hands of his father's quasi-psychotic unpredictability &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29036069">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very disappointing.  A Wolf at the Table?  There is not a Little Red Riding Hood anywhere in this family!  All through this book, I kept waiting for the story to improve, but it just kept getting worse.  Burroughs hypocritically accuses his father of being homicidal all the while wishing and plottin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22187426">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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